Youssef Ahmed Mahmoud (NL)

Youssef Mahmoud (they/them) is a Cairo-born and Amsterdam-based Community Builder, Door Host at RADION & Club RAUM, Drag Artist, and Political Scientist; an UvA Alumni specialising in Public Policy and Governance during their Bachelors and in Gender and Sexuality in Political Science during their Masters.

Their professional research involves topics such as transgender healthcare policy, pink washing & homonationalism, queer codes of social conduct and queer safety during military interventions. In addition to that, their artistic essence and performance combines elements of their background in musical theatre mixed with clubkid-drag, and punk, aiming at pushing the boundaries of identity, the body, sexuality and drag.